Edits
This page lists all the various possible edits that could be made to subject data supported by the recon-all stream (both the default 'cross-sectional' stream, and the longitudinal stream). 'Edits' is the term that describes manual interventions by a user necessary when the automated stream (recon-all) does not produce output that is correct or suitable as determined by the user, or if the automated stream fails outright. Manual interventions occur via the volume editing tool tkmedit, or tkregister2 (which 'edits' the alignment to Talairach space). Note that 'edits' are made only to volumes. There is no such thing as a surface edit. Problems with the surface are corrected by making edits to an appropriate volume. See troubleshooting.
Edits are treated as permanent changes, in the sense that once an edit is made,
All of the edits made to a subject can be revealed by using the -show-edits option of recon-all (available in v5.X):
recon-all -s subjid -show-edits
control points
user intervention
recon-all handling
talairach.xfm
user intervention
recon-all handling
brainmask.mgz
user intervention
recon-all handling
aseg.mgz
user intervention
recon-all handling
brain.finalsurfs.mgz
user intervention
recon-all handling
wm.mgz
user intervention
recon-all handling
seed points
user intervention